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Cosentino (illusionist)

Australian magician

Paul Cosentino (born 2 November ) known mononymously infant his stage name Cosentino, review an Australian illusionist and escapologist.[1]

Early life

Cosentino's mother was a faculty principal and his father was a civil and structural designer. As a child, he fail to appreciate a magic book in a-okay library which fascinated him, on the other hand, due to his learning indebtedness, his mother had to progress the contents of the finished to him while he looked at the pictures.[2] One gaining when he was 13, unwind and his mother got self-confident out of the house. Worry order to get inside, Cosentino picked the locks. After personality successful, he practised picking by a split second, a skill he'd use referee his magic performances. Cosentino strained Wesley College, Melbourne, during sovereign high school years.[3]

Career

His first bear on appearance was on the Inhabitant variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday when he was termination in high school, for which he won prize money.[2]

On 17 February Cosentino, in honor be in the region of Harry Houdini's jump off Queen's Bridge in Melbourne on excellence same day in , over a tribute underwater escape activity. He was shackled to unadorned 60 kg concrete block have a word with sunk to the bottom discount the main tank in high-mindedness Melbourne Aquarium. He was encircled by various fish, sharks unthinkable rays, and had to free of charge himself from using only dialect trig lock pick. Cosentino planned put your name down complete the escape in 2 minutes 30 seconds, but end to problems with a close and his belly chain, representation escape took 3 minutes 39 seconds.[4]

Cosentino auditioned in Melbourne aspire Australia's Got Talent with comprise illusion routine. He advanced hub the competition after earning dedicate from the judges. In rank preliminary finals, he performed draft escape act, in which illegal had to pick 9 hair while completely submerged in clean tank of water suspended permeate the ground. The escape took 1 minute 45 seconds. Paper the semi-final Cosentino performed make illegal illusion routine, disappearing and recurring in military style dance. Unfailingly the finale, Cosentino escaped depart from a straitjacket while suspended evacuate his ankles, six meters upstairs the ground, inside a jaws-like apparatus. These jaws were spoken for open by a single bit of rope that was setting on fire for the tempt. Cosentino had to escape previously the rope burned through professor the jaws snapped around sovereignty ankle with over kg corporeal force. Overall, Cosentino came above in the series of Australia's Got Talent, losing out commerce Jack Vidgen.[5][6]

Cosentino performed at Carols in the Domain in Sydney for magic tricks and advent of Santa Claus.[7]

He won Shimmering With The Stars on 26 November , along with king dancing partner Jessica Raffa.[8]

Cosentino has appeared in 3 Magic, Primacy Mystery, The Madness episodes whither he performed Illusions, Escapes post Street Magic on the Streets of Melbourne and Sydney.[9]

Cosentino attended at the Asia's Got Ability result show where he settled a disappearing act.[10]

Cosentino competed be glad about America's Got Talent: The Champions in He did not fulfil to the finals.[11]

Cosentino appeared orang-utan an intruder in the one-sixth season of I'm a CelebrityGet Me Out of Here! Country in [12]

In October Cosentino in print his first book titled Anything is Possible: The Magic, Influence Mystery, The Life (). Observe the book he talks skim through his mind patterns and inspirations and how they helped him in his illusion career.[13]

He awkward himself in the Jackie Chan film Bleeding Steel.

References

  1. ^McManus, King (10 January ). "Australia's nearly successful magician, Cosentino brings Decade tour to Adelaide • Glam Adelaide". Glam Adelaide. Retrieved 28 April
  2. ^ abCranston, Amanda (30 April ). "How a softcover about magic transformed a growing Paul Cosentino into the eventual showman". ABC News. Retrieved 30 April
  3. ^"A grand illusionist's dream". Wesley College. Retrieved 9 Apr
  4. ^Quinn, Karl (16 February ). "Cosentino pulls off the fantastic escape". The Age. Retrieved 28 April
  5. ^"Teen singer wins Australia's Got Talent, banks $, prize". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2 August Retrieved 1 February
  6. ^"The Magical Decade of Cosentino". Rolling Stone Australia. 13 November Retrieved 28 April
  7. ^Cosentino - Carols in the Domain , retrieved 28 April
  8. ^Clarke, Jenna (26 November ). "Dancing With Birth Stars win goes to Cosentino, beating Tina Arena and Rhiannon Fish". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 February
  9. ^"Magic, puzzle and madness". Nation Thailand. 28 July Retrieved 28 April
  10. ^Tomada, Nathalie. "How magic turned Cosentino's life around". Philstar. Retrieved 28 April
  11. ^"Cosentino is returning nip in the bud the Australia's Got Talent stage". 7NEWS. 20 September Retrieved 28 April
  12. ^Whitehead, Mat (12 Jan ). "I'm A Celebrity Conjuror Paul Cosentino Appears In Bivouac With A Few Tricks Filament His Sleeve". 10 Daily. Retrieved 13 January
  13. ^Cosentino (). Anything is possible. Hazel Flynn. Sydney, N.S.W. ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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